Lenox schools to explore alternative ways to structure district

LENOX, MA – During the formal public presentation of the public school system’s strategic plan, Superintendent Timothy Lee told the audience that as part of a “scenario to increase enrollment,” alternatives to a municipal school district will be studied over the next five years.

Possibilities he cited during this week’s wide-ranging, 90-minute program at Morris Elementary School included exploration of shared services with other districts, superintendency unions with other schools and regionalization, in order to “know what the opportunities and the threats of the different options might be.”

Through 2020, the Lenox Public Schools will remain an independent, municipal K-12 district “unless other opportunities emerge,” he pointed out.